CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
“Every Day,There Is a New Question” 1
UNDERNEATH IT ALL
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real 13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business 25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective 37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game 53
—v—
CONTENTS
YOUR COMPANY
5. LEADERSHIP
It’s Not Just About You 61
6. HIRING
What Winners Are Made Of 81
7. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
You’ve Got the Right Players. Now What? 97
8. PARTING WAYS
Letting Go Is Hard to Do 119
9. CHANGE
Mountains Do Move 133
10.CRISIS MANAGEMENT
From Oh-God-No to Yes-We’re-Fine 147
YOUR COMPETITION
11. STRATEGY
It’s All in the Sauce 165
12.BUDGETING
Reinventing the Ritual 189
13. ORGANIC GROWTH
So You Want to Start Something New 205
14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins 217
15. SIX SIGMA
Better Than a Trip to the Dentist 245
— vi —
CONTENTS
YOUR CAREER
16. THE RIGHT JOB
Find It and You’ll Never Really Work Again 255
17. GETTING PROMOTED
Sorry, No Shortcuts 277
18. HARD SPOTS
That Damn Boss 299
19.WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear) 313
TYING UP LOOSE ENDS
20.HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
The Questions That Almost Got Away 339
Acknowledgments 360
Index 363
— vii —
About the Author
Other
Books by Jack Welch
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
“EVERY DAY, THERE IS
A NEW QUESTION”
AF T E R I F I N I S H E D my autobiography—a fun but crazily intense grind that I wedged into the corners of my real job
at the time—I swore I’d never write another book again.
But I guess I did.
My excuse, if there is one, is that I didn’t actually come up with
the idea for this book.
It was given to me.
It was a retirement present, if you will, from the tens of thou-
sands of terrific people I have met since I left GE—the energized,
curious, gutsy, and ambitious men and women who have loved
business enough to ask me every possible question you could
imagine. In order to answer them, all I had to do was figure out
what I knew, sort it out, codify it, and borrow their stories—and
this book was off and running.
The questions I’m referring to first started during the promo-
tional tour for my autobiography in late 2001 and through much
of 2002, when I was overwhelmed by the emotional attachment
— 1 —
INTRODUCTION
people seemed to have to GE. From coast to coast, and in many
countries around the world, people told me touching stories
about their experiences working for the company, or what hap-
pened when their sister, dad, aunt, or grandfather did.
But with these stories, I was also surprised to hear how much
more people wanted to know about getting business right.
Radio call-in guests pressed me to explain GE’s system of
differentiation, which separates employees into.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Every Day, There Is a New Q.docxbobbywlane695641
This document provides an introduction and overview of the book. It discusses how the book came about from questions the author has received since leaving GE. The book aims to help people at all levels of organizations with ambition by providing guidance on what it takes to win in business. It is organized into four parts that cover underlying principles, internal company operations, external competition factors, and career management. The introduction provides a high-level outline of the book's structure and content to address the complex topic of winning in a comprehensive yet accessible manner through real-world examples and actionable ideas.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
“Every Day, There Is a New Question” 1
U N D E R N E AT H I T A L L
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real 13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business 25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective 37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game 53
—v—
CONTENTS
Y O U R C O M PA N Y
5. LEADERSHIP
It’s Not Just About You 61
6. HIRING
What Winners Are Made Of 81
7. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
You’ve Got the Right Players. Now What? 97
8. PARTING WAYS
Letting Go Is Hard to Do 119
9. CHANGE
Mountains Do Move 133
10.CRISIS MANAGEMENT
From Oh-God-No to Yes-We’re-Fine 147
Y O U R C O M P E T I T I O N
11. STRATEGY
It’s All in the Sauce 165
12. BUDGETING
Reinventing the Ritual 189
13. ORGANIC GROWTH
So You Want to Start Something New 205
14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins 217
15. SIX SIGMA
Better Than a Trip to the Dentist 245
— vi —
CONTENTS
Y O U R C A R E E R
16. THE RIGHT JOB
Find It and You’ll Never Really Work Again 255
17. GETTING PROMOTED
Sorry, No Shortcuts 277
18. HARD SPOTS
That Damn Boss 299
19. WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear) 313
T Y I N G U P L O O S E E N D S
20. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
The Questions That Almost Got Away 339
Acknowledgments 360
Index 363
— vii —
About the Author
Other
Books by Jack Welch
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
“EVERY DAY, THERE IS
A NEW QUESTION”
AF T E R I F I N I S H E D my autobiography—a fun but crazily intense grind that I wedged into the corners of my real job
at the time—I swore I’d never write another book again.
But I guess I did.
My excuse, if there is one, is that I didn’t actually come up with
the idea for this book.
It was given to me.
It was a retirement present, if you will, from the tens of thou-
sands of terrific people I have met since I left GE—the energized,
curious, gutsy, and ambitious men and women who have loved
business enough to ask me every possible question you could
imagine. In order to answer them, all I had to do was figure out
what I knew, sort it out, codify it, and borrow their stories—and
this book was off and running.
The questions I’m referring to first started during the promo-
tional tour for my autobiography in late 2001 and through much
of 2002, when I was overwhelmed by the emotional attachment
— 1 —
INTRODUCTION
people seemed to have to GE. From coast to coast, and in many
countries around the world, people told me touching stories
about their experiences working for the company, or what hap-
pened when their sister, dad, aunt, or grandfather did.
But with these stories, I was also surprised to hear how much
more people wanted to know about getting business right.
Radio call-in guests pressed me to ex.
With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in Global Marketing. A proven specialist in global brand strategy, marketing deployment, and operational change management, Alexei’s passionate and dynamic leadership has been a driving force throughout his career. Alexei Orlov is Founder and Global CEO of mtm choice worldwide, a boutique network of skilled practitioners specialising in high-precision brand activation and media optimisation. Bolstered by market-enabling technologies, mtm agencies seek to help brands excel at the “moments that matter” for their customers and consumers. Take a look at his interview with IdeaMensch here!
This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Mastering the Recession" by Robert J. Sprague. It discusses key topics from the book including:
1. Controlling your own destiny regardless of economic conditions and defining success on your own terms.
2. Viewing yourself as your own company and keeping your skills up to date and marketable over your career as job loyalty decreases.
3. Knowledge being "portable wealth" that cannot be taken away, so continuing to learn is important.
4. Inspiration, attitude and staying positive being important for success even in difficult economic times. Focusing on increasing value over cost when marketing yourself or your business.
This document is a newsletter from the Tea Shack News that provides information on coping with redundancy in the oil and gas industry. It includes interviews with people who have experienced redundancy and offer advice. A safety representative discusses the difficult emotions after being made redundant. An oil and gas veteran says this downturn will last until 2017 and advises being proactive by updating skills and visiting recruiters regularly. The newsletter also provides information on support services for those struggling financially or mentally with redundancy.
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of ThemAdam Bryant hPazSilviapm
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them
Adam Bryant has interviewed 525 chief executives through his years writing the Corner Office column. Here’s what he has learned.
Credit...
Photo Illustration by The New York Times
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By Adam Bryant
Oct. 27, 2017
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It started with a simple idea: What if I sat down with chief executives, and never asked them about their companies?
The notion occurred to me roughly a decade ago, after spending years as a reporter and interviewing C.E.O.s about many of the expected things: their growth plans, the competition, the economic forces driving their industries. But the more time I spent doing this, the more I found myself wanting to ask instead about more expansive themes — not about pivoting, scaling or moving to the cloud, but how they lead their employees, how they hire, and the life advice they give or wish they had received.
That led to 525 Corner Office columns, and weekly reminders that questions like these can lead to unexpected places.
I met an executive who grew up in a dirt-floor home, and another who escaped the drugs and gangs of her dangerous neighborhood. I learned about different approaches to building culture, from doing away with titles to offering twice-a-month housecleaning to all employees as a retention tool.
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And I have been endlessly surprised by the creative approaches that chief executives take to interviewing people for jobs, including tossing their car keys to a job candidate to drive them to a lunch spot, or asking them how weird they are, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Granted, not all chief executives are fonts of wisdom. And some of them, as headlines regularly remind us, are deeply challenged people.
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That said, there’s no arguing that C.E.O.s have a rare vantage point for spotting patterns about management, leadership and human behavior.
After almost a decade of writing the Corner Office column, this will be my final one — and from all the interviews, and the five million words of transcripts from those conversations, I have learned valuable leadership lessons and heard some great stories. Here are some standouts.
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So You Want to Be a C.E.O.?
James Nieves/The New York Times
‘The problem with values like respect and courage is that everybody interprets them differently. They’re too ambiguous and open to interpretation. Instead of uniting us, they can create friction.’
Michel Feaster, C.E.O. of Usermind
READ THE ORIGINAL INTERVIEW »
People often try to crack the code for the best path to becoming a chief executive. Do finance people have an edge over marketers? How many international postings should you have? A variety of experiences is good, but at what point does breadth suggest a lack of focus?
It’s a natural impulse. In this age of Moneyball and big data, why not look for patterns?
The problem is ...
This document provides an overview of the Lean Startup methodology. It begins with the author recounting his experience failing in his first startup due to not knowing the right process. He then describes his later success with IMVU by following an unorthodox approach of rapidly iterating based on experiments rather than feedback. This led to the development of Lean Startup principles applying lean manufacturing concepts to innovation. The Lean Startup movement aims to reduce waste from building unwanted products and help more ideas come to fruition.
This document provides an overview of the Lean Startup methodology. It begins with the author recounting his experience failing in his first startup due to not knowing the right process. He then describes his later success with IMVU by following an unorthodox approach of rapidly iterating based on experiments rather than feedback. This led to the development of Lean Startup principles applying lean manufacturing concepts to innovation. The Lean Startup movement aims to reduce waste from building unwanted products and help more startups succeed through the right process.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Every Day, There Is a New Q.docxbobbywlane695641
This document provides an introduction and overview of the book. It discusses how the book came about from questions the author has received since leaving GE. The book aims to help people at all levels of organizations with ambition by providing guidance on what it takes to win in business. It is organized into four parts that cover underlying principles, internal company operations, external competition factors, and career management. The introduction provides a high-level outline of the book's structure and content to address the complex topic of winning in a comprehensive yet accessible manner through real-world examples and actionable ideas.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
“Every Day, There Is a New Question” 1
U N D E R N E AT H I T A L L
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real 13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business 25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective 37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game 53
—v—
CONTENTS
Y O U R C O M PA N Y
5. LEADERSHIP
It’s Not Just About You 61
6. HIRING
What Winners Are Made Of 81
7. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
You’ve Got the Right Players. Now What? 97
8. PARTING WAYS
Letting Go Is Hard to Do 119
9. CHANGE
Mountains Do Move 133
10.CRISIS MANAGEMENT
From Oh-God-No to Yes-We’re-Fine 147
Y O U R C O M P E T I T I O N
11. STRATEGY
It’s All in the Sauce 165
12. BUDGETING
Reinventing the Ritual 189
13. ORGANIC GROWTH
So You Want to Start Something New 205
14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins 217
15. SIX SIGMA
Better Than a Trip to the Dentist 245
— vi —
CONTENTS
Y O U R C A R E E R
16. THE RIGHT JOB
Find It and You’ll Never Really Work Again 255
17. GETTING PROMOTED
Sorry, No Shortcuts 277
18. HARD SPOTS
That Damn Boss 299
19. WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear) 313
T Y I N G U P L O O S E E N D S
20. HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
The Questions That Almost Got Away 339
Acknowledgments 360
Index 363
— vii —
About the Author
Other
Books by Jack Welch
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
“EVERY DAY, THERE IS
A NEW QUESTION”
AF T E R I F I N I S H E D my autobiography—a fun but crazily intense grind that I wedged into the corners of my real job
at the time—I swore I’d never write another book again.
But I guess I did.
My excuse, if there is one, is that I didn’t actually come up with
the idea for this book.
It was given to me.
It was a retirement present, if you will, from the tens of thou-
sands of terrific people I have met since I left GE—the energized,
curious, gutsy, and ambitious men and women who have loved
business enough to ask me every possible question you could
imagine. In order to answer them, all I had to do was figure out
what I knew, sort it out, codify it, and borrow their stories—and
this book was off and running.
The questions I’m referring to first started during the promo-
tional tour for my autobiography in late 2001 and through much
of 2002, when I was overwhelmed by the emotional attachment
— 1 —
INTRODUCTION
people seemed to have to GE. From coast to coast, and in many
countries around the world, people told me touching stories
about their experiences working for the company, or what hap-
pened when their sister, dad, aunt, or grandfather did.
But with these stories, I was also surprised to hear how much
more people wanted to know about getting business right.
Radio call-in guests pressed me to ex.
With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in Global Marketing. A proven specialist in global brand strategy, marketing deployment, and operational change management, Alexei’s passionate and dynamic leadership has been a driving force throughout his career. Alexei Orlov is Founder and Global CEO of mtm choice worldwide, a boutique network of skilled practitioners specialising in high-precision brand activation and media optimisation. Bolstered by market-enabling technologies, mtm agencies seek to help brands excel at the “moments that matter” for their customers and consumers. Take a look at his interview with IdeaMensch here!
This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Mastering the Recession" by Robert J. Sprague. It discusses key topics from the book including:
1. Controlling your own destiny regardless of economic conditions and defining success on your own terms.
2. Viewing yourself as your own company and keeping your skills up to date and marketable over your career as job loyalty decreases.
3. Knowledge being "portable wealth" that cannot be taken away, so continuing to learn is important.
4. Inspiration, attitude and staying positive being important for success even in difficult economic times. Focusing on increasing value over cost when marketing yourself or your business.
This document is a newsletter from the Tea Shack News that provides information on coping with redundancy in the oil and gas industry. It includes interviews with people who have experienced redundancy and offer advice. A safety representative discusses the difficult emotions after being made redundant. An oil and gas veteran says this downturn will last until 2017 and advises being proactive by updating skills and visiting recruiters regularly. The newsletter also provides information on support services for those struggling financially or mentally with redundancy.
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of ThemAdam Bryant hPazSilviapm
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them
Adam Bryant has interviewed 525 chief executives through his years writing the Corner Office column. Here’s what he has learned.
Credit...
Photo Illustration by The New York Times
3
By Adam Bryant
Oct. 27, 2017
阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版
It started with a simple idea: What if I sat down with chief executives, and never asked them about their companies?
The notion occurred to me roughly a decade ago, after spending years as a reporter and interviewing C.E.O.s about many of the expected things: their growth plans, the competition, the economic forces driving their industries. But the more time I spent doing this, the more I found myself wanting to ask instead about more expansive themes — not about pivoting, scaling or moving to the cloud, but how they lead their employees, how they hire, and the life advice they give or wish they had received.
That led to 525 Corner Office columns, and weekly reminders that questions like these can lead to unexpected places.
I met an executive who grew up in a dirt-floor home, and another who escaped the drugs and gangs of her dangerous neighborhood. I learned about different approaches to building culture, from doing away with titles to offering twice-a-month housecleaning to all employees as a retention tool.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
And I have been endlessly surprised by the creative approaches that chief executives take to interviewing people for jobs, including tossing their car keys to a job candidate to drive them to a lunch spot, or asking them how weird they are, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Granted, not all chief executives are fonts of wisdom. And some of them, as headlines regularly remind us, are deeply challenged people.
Gift Subscriptions to The Times, Cooking or Games.
Starting at $25.
That said, there’s no arguing that C.E.O.s have a rare vantage point for spotting patterns about management, leadership and human behavior.
After almost a decade of writing the Corner Office column, this will be my final one — and from all the interviews, and the five million words of transcripts from those conversations, I have learned valuable leadership lessons and heard some great stories. Here are some standouts.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
So You Want to Be a C.E.O.?
James Nieves/The New York Times
‘The problem with values like respect and courage is that everybody interprets them differently. They’re too ambiguous and open to interpretation. Instead of uniting us, they can create friction.’
Michel Feaster, C.E.O. of Usermind
READ THE ORIGINAL INTERVIEW »
People often try to crack the code for the best path to becoming a chief executive. Do finance people have an edge over marketers? How many international postings should you have? A variety of experiences is good, but at what point does breadth suggest a lack of focus?
It’s a natural impulse. In this age of Moneyball and big data, why not look for patterns?
The problem is ...
This document provides an overview of the Lean Startup methodology. It begins with the author recounting his experience failing in his first startup due to not knowing the right process. He then describes his later success with IMVU by following an unorthodox approach of rapidly iterating based on experiments rather than feedback. This led to the development of Lean Startup principles applying lean manufacturing concepts to innovation. The Lean Startup movement aims to reduce waste from building unwanted products and help more ideas come to fruition.
This document provides an overview of the Lean Startup methodology. It begins with the author recounting his experience failing in his first startup due to not knowing the right process. He then describes his later success with IMVU by following an unorthodox approach of rapidly iterating based on experiments rather than feedback. This led to the development of Lean Startup principles applying lean manufacturing concepts to innovation. The Lean Startup movement aims to reduce waste from building unwanted products and help more startups succeed through the right process.
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This document contains a summary of Marc Andreessen's blog posts from 2007-2009 focused on startups, hiring, big companies, career and productivity advice, and the psychology of entrepreneurship. The blog provides lessons learned from Andreessen's experience co-founding Netscape, Opsware, and Ning, as well as from advising other startups. Specific topics covered include why one may not want to do a startup due to the emotional rollercoaster, constant rejection, difficult hiring process, long hours, and other challenges. The document also discusses how to respond when VCs say "no" to funding and how to potentially get them to reconsider.
This document is a summary of Marc Andreessen's blog posts about starting and running startups. It covers several reasons why someone may not want to start a startup, including:
1) Startups put founders through extreme emotional highs and lows as they deal with constant uncertainty and risk.
2) In a startup, nothing happens unless the founders make it happen, as there are no established systems or processes.
3) Founders will get told "no" frequently by potential employees, investors, customers, and partners.
4) Hiring is difficult as many prospective employees will back out, and around half of hires may not work out.
5) Hiring executives is
How do you solve the issue of 4 Generations in the Workplace? MBSN - Management by Sticky Notes! That was the approach taken by the Maryland Association of CPAs as they convened a Generational Symposium on June 25th in Ellicott City, MD.
Bringing almost 100 CPAs representing all four generations and an almost even mix of Millennials, Gen-Xers, and Boomers together. MACPA designed a format built on dialog and collaboration with a backgounder on the generational research, a multi-gen panel featuring MACPA leaders representing the generations, and a final session asking particpants to collaborate at tables to help us identify Bold Actions we can use to solve the generational gap (Management by Sticky Notes.
The energy and dialog was off the charts and some real progress was made using the wisdom pf the crowd. Bottom-line is leverage the strengths of every generation and don;t generalize but focus on the individuals.
The document discusses job hunting strategies at different career stages. It suggests that while there are universal best practices like spending 70% of time networking, different industries and age groups may require tweaks. For all groups, networking in person and via phone is important despite an overreliance on online tools alone. The recession has also led to lasting changes like taking responsibility for one's career and challenging assumptions. Maintaining manners and flexibility are keys to navigating today's workplace.
This document introduces network marketing as a new profession that provides additional income and financial freedom. It begins with a story of a multimillionaire who found success in network marketing after previously criticizing the model. The document then defines network marketing as direct selling using a network of distributors, explains how it benefits companies and distributors, and argues that it allows average people to build their own business and fortune by leveraging the efforts of others in their downline network. The overall message is that network marketing provides a better way to earn income compared to traditional jobs by allowing people to profit from the work of others in their organization.
Two Network Marketers Want To Set The Record Straight About Network MarketingJason Boreyko
Michaela Schell and Joelle Suess are two local network marketers who wanted to dispel common misconceptions about the industry. Schell got involved in direct sales five years ago through Rodan + Fields to balance work and family, while Suess started seven years ago with Beachbody as a student looking for extra income. They addressed five common myths: 1) Only people at the top make money, saying success requires hard work and an equal starting point; 2) Network marketing has cult-like tendencies, but it fosters a team mentality; 3) It attracts those with little business experience, but skills can be learned; 4) Pyramid structures are inherently bad, but the industry model has changed;
Project 42 is a fun piece of research that addresses topics we rarely discuss at work. The opinions of our piers are always interesting but not at the cost of our own beliefs.
How Does Organisational Change Really Happen? #influencers Albion
This document summarizes initial research conducted by Albion and Ashridge on organizational "Influencers", individuals within large organizations who drive novel and lasting positive change in unconventional ways. They interviewed 11 senior Influencers from diverse sectors who described themselves as comfortable outsiders driven to achieve big goals and leave a legacy. Influencers build social movements to drive cultural change, are restless change-seekers but patient, and use different tactics based on personality. Their success depends on having just enough power, luck, and support from top management. Next steps are to develop propositions to help organizations and Influencers work together, and test these ideas with businesses.
This document provides biographies of Bo Short and Ty Tribble, who are authors and leaders in the network marketing industry. It discusses their backgrounds, accomplishments, and expertise in areas like public speaking, leadership, and internet marketing. The document also includes quotes from other network marketing leaders praising Bo and Ty's work and contributions to the industry.
Leading Four Generations in the Workplace - AICPA Global Manufacturing Confer...Tom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
Presentation to the AICPA Global Manufacturing Conference in NOLA
The 'shift change' is underway as the retiring baby boom generation makes way for Generation X. The shift change is the transfer of the retiring baby boomers to the next generation of leaders that will be taking the helm in the next few years. This time what got you here won;t get you there. The incoming shift will require a new set of skills and tools to continue the work of the prior shift. This time it is different.
Generational issues in the workplace are one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. This presentation covers the latest research and ideas to successfully lead 4 generations in the workplace. The latest research on the new skills needed in the modern workforce and how leadership has changed. Participants will learn new approaches to engaging the next generation of workers to connect and collaborate in a way that maximizes their discretionary effort.
- The document discusses the importance of innovation, constant improvement, and a willingness to take risks and make mistakes in order to stay competitive in business. It emphasizes relentless pursuit of inefficiency and technological/innovative leaps to drive growth.
- Leadership is discussed in terms of empowering others, treating people with respect, and letting individuals and teams discover their own strengths and contributions to the organization. Trust between leaders and teams is highlighted as important for cohesion.
- A focus on customer service, continual systems improvement, and quality communication is advocated to build successful organizations centered around valuable professional services.
This document discusses the importance of innovation, design, talent acquisition, customer service, and relentless pursuit of improvement for organizations. Some key points made include:
1) Innovation and blowing up the status quo, rather than incremental changes, are necessary to stay competitive.
2) Acquiring talented people who can improve processes and create new opportunities is vital for growth.
3) Focusing on design thinking and creating memorable customer experiences that enhance the brand's positioning are important strategies.
4) Relentless pursuit of inefficiency, technological leaps, and new ways to create wealth will help organizations succeed.
QCS Leadership Conference 2019 - Managing Change From The Inside Out & Strate...Tim Miles
This document discusses challenges related to managing employees and a business. It mentions issues like finding and retaining good employees, communication between employees, government regulations, and having enough work and people to get the work done correctly. It also discusses the need for a plan to bring in new employees and get them up to speed. Maintaining customer and supplier relationships is mentioned as well. Overall the document focuses on operational and people-related issues facing a business manager.
This document provides biographies of Ty Tribble and Bo Short, who are recognized experts in network marketing. Ty Tribble is an internet entrepreneur and former president of a network marketing company. He authors influential blogs on network marketing and social media. Bo Short is an author, speaker and leadership expert who has spoken to over 1 million people worldwide. The document also contains testimonials praising Ty and Bo from other network marketing leaders and executives.
J.T. Foxx started investing with nothing more than a rusted out Ford pick-up truck, $974 dollars and 1 cheap suit. Now just 6 years later, he has acquired and sold over 500 properties, closed over $40 million in real estate deals. He then turned into a serial entrepreneur and started several multi-million dollar companies all over the world, became one the most sought after motivational speakers and recognized as one of the top wealth coaches in the world all by mastering the Art of partnering, branding, networking, and marketing.J.T. is the syndicated weekend radio personality of the “J.T. Foxx Show” in the US and Canada. His radio program features celebrity guests as Senator McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Gene Simmons, Rev Jesse Jackson, Trump, George Ross, Kevin O’Leary, Politicians like Speaker Gingrich & Hastert, Governor Pataki and celebrated authors like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, David Bach.Even though his recognition and success in business, real estate and radio continues to rise, J.T.’s true passion is coaching and reaching out to those who dream of achieving their goals by creating differentiation and thinking differently. J.T. teaches the same practical applications he utilizes daily that actually get results in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. The bottom line is his wealth techniques work.J.T. is also the founder of Mega Partnering, the world’s # 1 Wealth Networking Conference which takes place all over the world and features celebrities, industry leaders, millionaires, and ordinary people looking to do extraordinary things in today’s market. It is the ultimate WOW of conferences; as people from all walks of life get together, network and try and do business together.
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This document is a letter from an internationally recognized business expert offering a highly intensive and transformational training program to a select individual. The training will last 1.5 days and cover strategies to outperform competition in areas like thinking, performing, innovating, marketing, networking, and funding. It promises to teach the attendee how to recognize opportunities, increase profits, and position themselves as an expert in their field. The expert says they will pay the full $5,000 tuition for the right candidate and that the training is an opportunity for both parties to potentially form a long-term business relationship or partnership.
Gen Y; Millennials; Echo Boomers; the Trophy Generation; Net Y Not. Google “managing” any of those
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Construction Management Jump Start
Chapter 5
Project Stages
Chapter 5
Project StagesThis chapter introduces you to the people, activities, and requirements that must be coordinated to execute the construction project. This chapter focuses on the stages of the design and construction process.
The Design and Construction Process
The design and construction of buildings, bridges, and roadways follow a consistent linear path from initial concept to occupancy.
The Design StageProgramming and feasibilityDone prior to design and engages the owner to clarify needs.Schematic designFirst step of the creative process consisting of sketches that identify preliminary design characteristics. Design development (DD)Detail work of the design occurs here. Selection of material, equipment and systems to go into the building.Contract documents (CDs)Final detailed drawings known working drawings and the project specifications are known as the CD’s
Codes and Compliance IssuesThe major goal of the design team is to make the building compliant with various statutory regulationsThe duration of this process varies. It can take weeks, months, or even years.The success of the project depends on the successful execution of this stages
The Bidding StagePlans and Specifications produced for biddersThis stage is traditionally coordinated by the architect to assist the owner in contractor selectionNotice to Proceed with construction is issued to the winning contractor.
Pre-construction StageProject manager plays the lead role in assembling and orchestrating the team that will complete the job.Detailed planning is invaluable at the this stageOne of the hardest stages of the job to manageAssigning the team is dependent on the size and complexity of the job. Usually there is…
Assigning the Project Team
Team Roles Project manager (PM)Captain of the team, usually with extensive experience in construction and management. Contract administratorAssists the PM and Super with the details of the contract.SuperintendentCoordinates all of the on-site construction activities. He/she is the daily point contact for the owner other representatives.Field EngineerEntry level position that is the first step in progressing through the ranks of project management. Primarily handle paperwork such as requests for information (RFI), submittals, and shop drawings
Due DiligenceSite InvestigationLooking for hidden geological problems, hazardous material, or historical remnants that may delay or alter the job.Soil testing and engineeringShould be provided by owner, reviewed by architect for design, and used by the contractor to price and conduct work
The process of identifying any problems or areas of concern that exist and addressing them during the preconstruction phase
Value EngineeringThe point when this occurs depends on the selected delivery method.Field personnel are underutilized and can provide valuable information during this process.
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This course has helped prepare me for successful leadership. It has enlightened me about various rights regarding the treatment of students. The learning standards in the course have been helpful. Through the learning standards, knowledge of the freedom of religion and expression was gained. As a successful educational leader understanding that the students have the freedom of religion. Also understanding that students who come from minority groups are likely to be discriminated against or denied their rights. Therefore, advocates for equity in the course of educational leadership and honors diverse views. However, being a successful educational leader understands that children have different learning needs, and this makes them strive to create a strong educational opportunity and provide adequate learning resources.
How do you see yourself using the information in this course to support your leadership goals?
The course enabled me to learn about how to handle student records. As an educational leader, I am in a better position to safeguard the records of students. Upon completion of the course, one understands how to communicate with parents about the progress of children and their rights. I learned that I should ensure that student records are accessed only for educational legitimate reasons. Researchers are likely to ask for students' records, and this means an educational leader must have a proper understanding of privacy laws. The knowledge acquired about the safety of students was important. It was useful to know that teachers are responsible for the safety of students as they must care for them when they are at school or during school-related events. Regarding school attire, it was good to know that one must create opportunities for open discussion with parents and teachers and even community members to decide on the appropriate attire for students.
The information gained in this course will be used to create safe learning environments for children in the future. Students will be protected from harassment, discrimination, and other potential dangers they could face at school. The information will also be used to create adequate policies about various issues such as school uniforms and the level of expression. It will also help to find learning resources for students, especially from the community members. While creating policies regarding various school issues such as student privacy and search, I will use the information acquired from this course. For students with disabilities, adequate learning aids will be provided and they will be treated fairly. Positive relationships will be developed with families and caregivers of the children. There will also be a high level of collaboration and supervision of instruction.
How might the information in this course change or add to your own personal definition of leadership (Especially .
Course Reflection GuidelinesPurposeThe purpose of this assignmen.docxmelvinjrobinson2199
Course Reflection GuidelinesPurpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to reflect on selected RN-BSN competencies acquired through the NUR3165 course. Course Outcomes
This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:
· The student will be able to produce a complete research paper.
· The student will identify the research methods, sources and application in nursing practice.
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2. Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about your essay may be posted under the Q & A forum under the Discussions tab.
3. The length of the reflection is to be within three to six pages excluding title page and reference pages.
4. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headers (upper and lower case, centered):
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a. Course Reflection
b. ConclusionPreparing Your Reflection
The BSN Essentials (AACN, 2008) outline a number of healthcare policy and advocacy competencies for the BSN-prepared nurse. Reflect on the NUR3165 course readings, discussion threads, and applications you have completed across this course and write a reflective essay regarding the extent to which you feel you are now prepared to:
1. “Explain the interrelationships among theory, practice, and research.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of the research process and models for applying evidence to clinical practice.
3. Advocate for the protection of human subjects in the conduct of research.
4. Evaluate the credibility of sources of information, including but not limited to databases and Internet resources.
5. Participate in the process of retrieval, appraisal, and synthesis of evidence in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team to improve patient outcomes.
6. Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
7. Collaborate in the collection, documentation, and dissemination of evidence.
8. Acquire an understanding of the process for how nursing and related healthcare quality and safety measures are developed, validated, and endorsed.
9. Describe mechanisms to resolve identified practice discrepancies .
Course ProjectExamine the statement of cash flows for the compan.docxmelvinjrobinson2199
Course Project
Examine the statement of cash flows for the companies you selected in
Week 1
for the most recent year.
Tasks:
Summarize your course project to this point. What have you learned about your companies?
What are the two largest investing activities and financing activities for each firm?
Compare and contrast the investing and financing activities of the two companies.
Evaluate the investing and financing strategies of the two firms? Provide a rationale for your opinion as to the effectiveness of each of the strategies.
Submission Details:
Submit a 3-4 page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
Name your file: SU_FIN4060_W3_CP_LastName_FirstInitial.doc
Submit your assignment to the
Submissions Area
by
the due date assigned.
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Course: PHYSICAL SECURITY
Discussion Question – Primary post due Wednesday by 11:55 pm EST
"There are many different types of physical barriers, internal and external to an organization or facility.How can physical aid in the protection of high dollar assets that an organization wants to protect?"
"APA Format"
"NO PLAGIARISM"
Plagiarism includes copying and pasting material from the internet into assignments without properly citing the source of the material.
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Course Project Layers of Me” My Humanitarian Professional Pro.docxmelvinjrobinson2199
Course Project: “Layers of Me”: My Humanitarian Professional Profile
It is a best practice to create a professional development plan as part of a professional journey. Plans can be quite extensive, detailing everything you need to do in order to complete a degree and engage in the profession. For this Assignment, you are expected to consider one element of a professional development plan which is reflective of your self-assessment. What skills and abilities, characteristics do you possess that will make you an effective leader? In addition, how do your cultural identity and personal values fit in your aspirations to engage in this type of work?
To prepare for this Assignment:
Complete the interactive media, “Layers of Me: Skills and Abilities.”
Using a scale of 1–10 (1 being the lowest rating and 10 being the highest), assign yourself a score for each of the following questions:
How would you rate your leadership skills?
How would you rate your interpersonal skills (e.g., empathy, listening, sharing, caring)?
How would you rate your oral and written communication skills?
How would you rate your collaboration skills? (Do you work well with others? Are you a team player?)
How would you rate your stress-management skills?
How would you rate your level of perseverance?
How well do you respond to disappointment and frustration?
How would you rate your optimism?
How would you rate your negotiation skills?
After you have completed your self-assessment, review your blog posts throughout the course. Combine your assessment information to create your own professional profile. This is only the start in developing this profile; however, it will give you a better understanding of who you are as a humanitarian professional, what you hope to do within this field of work, and how you will affect social change.
To complete the Assignment:
Create a 4- to 5-page paper assembling all the assessment data you gathered throughout the course. Summarize the data and describe yourself as a humanitarian professional. Include the following:
The skills and characteristics you possess that will allow you to be effective in your role
An explanation of the role your cultural identity will play in your success as a humanitarian professional and your ability to demonstrate cultural competence
How your ethics and values will guide you in your future work
How your profile fits in with your professional goals
.
Course ObjectivesCLO #1 Assess elements of contemporary le.docxmelvinjrobinson2199
Course Objectives:
CLO #1: Assess elements of contemporary leadership theories and models.
CLO #2: Analyze qualities and skills of a highly effective, ethical leader.
Assignment Prompt:
Take both the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
Ethics Self Assessment
and the Project Management Institute (PMI)
Ethics Self-Assessment
.
Watch the MindTools video on
Values
.
Instructions:
Conduct an analysis of your personal ethical beliefs and values. Use the ethics self-assessments to help determine your strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Develop a
3-4 page
essay that discusses the results of those assessments, your personal ethical beliefs and values, and your own personal philosophy of ethical leadership. Your essay must be supported by at least
2-3 scholarly sources
.
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Course Name: Intro to big data.
Assignment: Big data and COVID -19
1-How is Big Data used in the fight against COVID-19?
2. How can we extend these applications to the marketing field after the crisis is under control?
3. What are the ethical concerns from the use of Big Data? Use COVID-19 as an example
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COURSE: MGT211
Using the Internet, and credible electronic search tools, research various options for delivering worker performance training programs in this 21st century. Select a minimum of three training methods (e.g., classroom, directed study, video conferencing, self-paced, computer-mediated, manual, etc.). Using the aforementioned “Guidelines for Writing Papers”,
write a 4-5 academic paper
that describes a minimum of three methods of today’s training options. Include a minimum of two credible references that were used in your research.
Guidelines for Writing Papers
Your papers should be:
word-processed using Microsoft’s Word (extension .doc or .docx)
double-spaced
Your papers should have:
one-inch margins
a font size of 12
a cover page that includes your paper’s title, your name, the date, and the course identification
an introduction that states the purpose of the paper, and provides a roadmap of the paper’s contents
paragraphs that develop and support your ideas
section titles or headings, that help to organize your presentation
a conclusion that summarizes the paper
a logical flow
smooth transitions between ideas
in-text citations and a reference (bibliography) page using APA style (no footnotes)
No grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors
.
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population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
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providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
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Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
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and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Every Day,There Is a New Qu.docx
1. CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
“Every Day,There Is a New Question” 1
UNDERNEATH IT ALL
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real 13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business 25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective 37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game 53
—v—
CONTENTS
2. YOUR COMPANY
5. LEADERSHIP
It’s Not Just About You 61
6. HIRING
What Winners Are Made Of 81
7. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
You’ve Got the Right Players. Now What? 97
8. PARTING WAYS
Letting Go Is Hard to Do 119
9. CHANGE
Mountains Do Move 133
10.CRISIS MANAGEMENT
From Oh-God-No to Yes-We’re-Fine 147
YOUR COMPETITION
11. STRATEGY
It’s All in the Sauce 165
12.BUDGETING
Reinventing the Ritual 189
3. 13. ORGANIC GROWTH
So You Want to Start Something New 205
14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins 217
15. SIX SIGMA
Better Than a Trip to the Dentist 245
— vi —
CONTENTS
YOUR CAREER
16. THE RIGHT JOB
Find It and You’ll Never Really Work Again 255
17. GETTING PROMOTED
Sorry, No Shortcuts 277
18. HARD SPOTS
That Damn Boss 299
19.WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Having It All (But Were Afraid to Hear) 313
4. TYING UP LOOSE ENDS
20.HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
The Questions That Almost Got Away 339
Acknowledgments 360
Index 363
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About the Author
Other
Books by Jack Welch
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
“EVERY DAY, THERE IS
A NEW QUESTION”
AF T E R I F I N I S H E D my autobiography—a fun but
5. crazily intense grind that I wedged into the corners of my real
job
at the time—I swore I’d never write another book again.
But I guess I did.
My excuse, if there is one, is that I didn’t actually come up with
the idea for this book.
It was given to me.
It was a retirement present, if you will, from the tens of thou-
sands of terrific people I have met since I left GE—the
energized,
curious, gutsy, and ambitious men and women who have loved
business enough to ask me every possible question you could
imagine. In order to answer them, all I had to do was figure out
what I knew, sort it out, codify it, and borrow their stories—and
this book was off and running.
The questions I’m referring to first started during the promo-
tional tour for my autobiography in late 2001 and through much
of 2002, when I was overwhelmed by the emotional attachment
— 1 —
INTRODUCTION
people seemed to have to GE. From coast to coast, and in many
countries around the world, people told me touching stories
about their experiences working for the company, or what hap-
pened when their sister, dad, aunt, or grandfather did.
But with these stories, I was also surprised to hear how much
more people wanted to know about getting business right.
6. Radio call-in guests pressed me to explain GE’s system of
differentiation, which separates employees into three
performance
categories and manages them up or out accordingly. People
attending book-signing events wanted to know if I really meant
it
when I said the head of human resources at every company
should
be at least as important as the CFO. (I did!) At a visit to the
University of Chicago business school, an MBA from India
asked
me to explain more fully what a really good performance
appraisal
should sound like.
The questions didn’t stop after the book tour. They contin-
ued—in airports, restaurants, and elevators. Once a guy swam
over
to me in the surf off Miami Beach to ask me what I thought
about
a certain franchise opportunity he was considering. But mainly
they’ve come at the 150 or so Q & A sessions I have
participated
in over the past three years, in cities around the world from
New
York to Shanghai, from Milan to Mexico City. In these sessions,
which have ranged from thirty to five thousand audience mem-
bers, I sit on a stage with a moderator, usually a business
journalist,
and I try to answer anything the audience wants to throw at me.
And throw they have—questions about everything from cop-
ing with Chinese competition, to managing talented but difficult
people, to finding the perfect job, to implementing Six Sigma,
to
7. hiring the right team, to leading in uncertain times, to surviving
mergers and acquisitions, to devising a killer strategy.
What should I do, I’ve heard, if I deliver great results but I
work
for a jerk who doesn’t seem to care, or if I’m the only person in
my
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INTRODUCTION
company who thinks change is necessary, or if the budget
process
in my company is full of sandbagging, or I’m about to launch a
great new product and headquarters doesn’t want to give me the
autonomy and resources I need?
What can I do, people have asked, if managers in my company
don’t really tell it like it is, or I have to let go of an employee I
really like but who just can’t hack it, or I have to help lead my
orga-
nization through the crisis we’ve been trying to deal with for a
year?
There have been questions about juggling the colliding
demands of kids, career, and all that other stuff you want to do,
like
play golf, renovate your house, or raise money in a walkathon.
There have been questions about landing the promotion of your
dreams—without making any enemies. There have been ques-
tions about macroeconomic trends, emerging industries, and
currency fluctuations.
8. There have been literally thousands of questions. But most of
them come down to this:
What does it take to win?
And that is what this book is about—winning. Probably no
other topic could have made me want to write again!
Because I think winning is great. Not good—great.
Winning in business is great be-
cause when companies win, people
thrive and grow. There are more
jobs and more opportunities every-
where and for everyone. People feel
upbeat about the future; they have
the resources to send their kids to
college, get better health care, buy
vacation homes, and secure a com-
fortable retirement. And winning
affords them the opportunity to
literally thousands of
to this:
take to win?
I have been asked
questions. But most
of them come down
What does it
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9. INTRODUCTION
I think winning is
great. Because when
are more jobs and more
great. Not good—
companies win, people
thrive and grow. There
opportunities.
give back to society in hugely im-
portant ways beyond just paying
more taxes—they can donate time
and money to charities and mentor
in inner-city schools, to name just
two. Winning lifts everyone it
touches—it just makes the world a
better place.
When companies are losing, on
the other hand, everyone takes a hit.
People feel scared. They have less fi-
nancial security and limited time or
money to do anything for anyone else. All they do is worry and
upset their families, and in the meantime, if they’re out of work,
they pay little, if any, taxes.
Let’s talk about taxes for a minute. In fact, let’s talk about gov-
ernment in general.
10. Obviously, government is a vital part of society. First and fore-
most, it does nothing less than protect us all from the insidious
and
persistent challenges to national security that are with us now
and
for the foreseeable future. But government provides much more:
the justice system, education, police and fire protection,
highways
and ports, welfare and hospitals. The list could go on and on.
But even with the virtues of government, it is critical to re-
member that all of its services come from some form of tax rev-
enue. Government makes no money of its own. And in that way,
government is the support for the engine of the economy, it is
not
the engine itself.
Winning companies and the people who work for them are
the engine of a healthy economy, and in providing the revenues
for government, they are the foundation of a free and
democratic
society.
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That’s why winning is great.
Now, it goes without saying that you have to win the right
way—cleanly and by the rules. That’s a given. Companies and
people that don’t compete fairly don’t deserve to win, and
thanks
11. to well-honed internal company processes and government regu-
latory agencies, the bad guys are usually found and kicked out
of
the game.
But companies and people in business that are honest—and
that’s the vast, vast majority—must find the way to win.
This book offers a road map.
It is not, incidentally, a road map just for senior level managers
and CEOs. If this book helps them, terrific. I hope it does. But
this
book is also very much for people on the front lines: business
owners, middle managers, people running factories, line
workers,
college graduates looking at their first jobs, MBAs considering
new careers, and entrepreneurs. My main goal with this book is
to
help the people with ambition in their eyes and passion running
through their veins, wherever they are in an organization.
You will meet a lot of people in this book. Some may remind
you of yourself, some may just seem very familiar:
There’s the CEO who presents the company with a list of
noble values—say, quality, customer service, and respect—but
never really explains what it means to live them. There’s the
mid-
dle manager who fumes during a meeting with another division
of his company, knowing that his coworkers could do so much
more—if they just stopped patting themselves on the back for a
minute. There is the employee who has been underperforming
for years but is just so friendly and nice—and clueless—you
can’t
bring yourself to let her go. There is the colleague you can’t
12. look
in the eye because he is a “Dead Man Walking,” slowly and
painfully being managed out the door. There are the employees
who eat lunch every day at what they have dubbed “The Table
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INTRODUCTION
and spread it around,
Have a positive attitude
never let yourself be a
victim, and for goodness’
sake—have fun.
of Lost Dreams,” making a show
of their resentment of authority.
There’s the engineer who spent
fifteen years building a great career,
only to throw it in one day when she
realized that she had juggled life and
work to make everyone happy—but
herself.
You’ll also meet a lot of people
whose stories are examples of innovation, insight, and grit.
There’s David Novak, the energetic young CEO of Yum!
Brands, who has turned every one of Yum!’s more than thirty-
three thousand restaurant chain outlets into a laboratory of new
ideas and the entire organization into a learning machine.
There’s
Denis Nayden, the consummate change agent, who never settles
13. for good enough and has intensity to burn. There’s Jimmy
Dunne,
who rebuilt his company out of the ashes of the World Trade
Center, using love, hope, and an attitude that anything is
possible.
There’s Susan Peters, a working mother and the No. 2 HR
execu-
tive at GE, who could write a book herself on successfully navi-
gating the hills and valleys of work-life balance. There is Chris
Navetta, the CEO of U.S. Steel Kosice, who helped transform a
struggling city in Slovakia while turning a former state-owned
steel mill into a flourishing, profitable enterprise. There’s
Kenneth
Yu, the head of 3M’s Chinese operations, who catapulted his
busi-
nesses from modest to high growth by throwing out the phony
ritual of annual budgeting and replacing it with a sky’s-the-
limit
dialogue about opportunities. There’s Mark Little, who was
devas-
tated after a demotion at GE but fought his way back to a huge
promotion with courage, perseverance, and great results.
People are everything when it comes to winning, and so this
book is a lot about people—in some cases, the mistakes they’ve
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INTRODUCTION
made, but more often, their successes. But mostly this book is
about ideas and the power of putting them into action.
Now, at this point, there might be readers out there who are
14. skeptical. They’re thinking: Winning is just too nuanced and
com-
plex a topic to cover in twenty chapters. I don’t care how many
people and ideas are in this book!
Yes, winning is nuanced and complex, not to mention brutally
hard.
But it also happens to be achievable. You can win. But to do
that, you need to know what makes winning happen.
This book offers no easy formulas. There are none.
Depending on the chapter, this book does, however, give you
guidelines to follow, rules to consider, assumptions to adopt,
and
mistakes to avoid. The strategy chapter provides a three-step
process; the chapter on finding the right job offers you good
signs
and warning signals. There are also several themes you’ll hear
again and again: the team with the best players wins, so find
and
retain the best players; don’t overbrain things to the point of
inaction; no matter what part of a business you’re in, share
learning
relentlessly; have a positive attitude and spread it around; never
let
yourself be a victim; and for goodness’ sake—have fun.
Yes, have fun.
Business is a game, and winning that game is a total blast!
THE ROAD AHEAD
Before we get started, a word on how this book is organized. It
has
15. four parts.
The first, called “Underneath It All,” is conceptual. It certainly
contains more management philosophy than most
businesspeople
have time for on any given day, and certainly more than I ever
thought about in one sitting when I was working the day shift.
But
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there is a substructure of principles to my approach to business,
and so I lay them out in this first part.
In brief, the four principles are about the importance of a
strong mission and concrete values; the absolute necessity of
can-
dor in every aspect of management; the power of
differentiation,
meaning a system based on meritocracy; and the value of each
in-
dividual receiving voice and dignity.
The next section of this book, “Your Company,” is about the
innards of organizations. It’s about mechanics—people,
processes,
and culture. Its chapters look at leadership, hiring, people
manage-
ment, letting people go, managing change, and crisis
management.
After “Your Company” comes “Your Competition,” the sec-
16. tion of this book about the world outside your organization. It
dis-
cusses how you create strategic advantages, devise meaningful
budgets, grow organically, grow through mergers and
acquisitions,
and it attempts to demystify a topic that never ceases to intrigue
and baffle people, the quality program Six Sigma.
The next section of this book is called “Your Career,” and it’s
about managing the arc and the quality of your professional life.
It
starts with a chapter on finding the right job, not just a first job
but
the right job at any point in your career. It also includes a
chapter
on what it takes to get promoted, and another on a hard spot we
all
find ourselves in at one time or another—working for a bad
boss.
The last chapter of this section addresses the very human desire
to
have it all—all at the same time—which as you already know,
you
can’t really do. You can, however, know what your boss thinks
about the matter, and you should—and that’s one aspect of this
chapter.
The last section of this book is called “Tying Up Loose Ends,”
and in it, I answer nine questions that did not fall into any of
the
above categories. They concern managing the “China threat,”
di-
versity, the impact of new regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley
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Act, and how business should respond to societal crises like
AIDS.
There is also a question in there about how my successor, Jeff
Im-
melt, is doing (in a word, great), the status of my golf game,
and
whether I think I’ll go to heaven.
Now, that was a question that stopped me!
As for the rest of the questions in this book—they didn’t ex-
actly stop me, but they did challenge me to think hard about
what
I believe and why.
This book has a lot of answers, but not all—because business is
always changing and the world is always changing.
As a Dutch entrepreneur said to me last year, “Every day in life,
there is a new question. That is what keeps us going.”
There are new questions—and new answers too. In fact, I have
learned almost as much about business since I left GE as when I
worked there. I learned from every single question asked of me.
And I hope my responses will help you learn too.
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18. UNDERNEATH IT ALL
1. MISSION AND VALUES
So Much Hot Air About Something So Real 13
2. CANDOR
The Biggest Dirty Little Secret in Business 25
3. DIFFERENTIATION
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective 37
4. VOICE AND DIGNITY
Every Brain in the Game 53
1
Mission and Values
SO MUCH HOT AIR ABOUT
SOMETHING SO REAL
BE A R W I T H M E , if you will, while I talk about mission
and values.
I say that because these two terms have got to be among the
most abstract, overused, misunderstood words in business.
When I
speak with audiences, I’m asked about them frequently, usually
19. with some level of panic over their actual meaning and
relevance.
(In New York, I once got the question “Can you please define
the
difference between a mission and a value, and also tell us what
dif-
ference that difference makes?”) Business schools add to the
con-
fusion by having their students regularly write mission
statements
and debate values, a practice made even more futile for being
car-
ried out in a vacuum. Lots of companies do the same to their
sen-
ior executives, usually in an attempt to create a noble-sounding
plaque to hang in the company lobby.
Too often, these exercises end with a set of generic platitudes
that do nothing but leave employees directionless or cynical.
Who
doesn’t know of a mission statement that reads something like,
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“XYZ Company values quality and service,” or, “Such-and-Such
Company is customer-driven.” Tell me what company doesn’t
value quality and service or focus on its customers! And who
doesn’t know of a company that has spent countless hours in
emo-
tional debate only to come up with values that, despite the good
intentions that went into them, sound as if they were plucked
from
20. an all-purpose list of virtues including “integrity, quality, excel-
lence, service, and respect.” Give me a break—every decent
com-
pany espouses these things! And frankly, integrity is just a
ticket to
the game. If you don’t have it in your bones, you shouldn’t be
al-
lowed on the field.
By contrast, a good mission statement and a good set of values
are so real they smack you in the face with their concreteness.
The
mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values
describe the behaviors that will get you there. Speaking of that,
I
prefer abandoning the term values altogether in favor of just
behav-
iors. But for the sake of tradition, let’s stick with the common
ter-
minology.
FIRST: ABOUT THAT MISSION . . .
In my experience, an effective mission statement basically
answers
one question: How do we intend to win in this business?
It does not answer: What were we good at in the good old
days? Nor does it answer: How can we describe our business
so that no particular unit or division or senior executive gets
pissed off?
Instead, the question “How do we intend to win in this busi-
ness?” is defining. It requires companies to make choices about
people, investments, and other resources, and it prevents them
from falling into the common mission trap of asserting they will
21. be all things to all people at all times. The question forces
compa-
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nies to delineate their strengths and weaknesses in order to
assess
where they can profitably play in the competitive landscape.
Yes,profitably—that’s the key. Even Ben & Jerry’s, the
crunchy-
granola, hippy, save-the-world ice cream company based in
Vermont, has “profitable growth” and “increasing value for
stake-
holders” as one of the elements of its three-part mission
statement
because its executives know that without financial success, all
the
social goals in the world don’t have a chance.
That’s not saying a mission shouldn’t be bold or aspirational.
Ben & Jerry’s, for instance, wants to sell “all natural ice cream
and
euphoric concoctions” and “improve the quality of life locally,
na-
tionally and internationally.” That kind of language is great in
that
it absolutely has the power to excite people and motivate them
to
stretch.
At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the
22. possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of
the
direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part
of
something big and important.
Take our mission at GE as an example. From 1981 through
1995, we said we were going to be “the most competitive enter-
prise in the world” by being No. 1 or No. 2 in every market—
fixing, selling, or closing every underperforming business that
couldn’t get there. There could be no doubt about what this
mission meant or entailed. It was specific and descriptive, with
nothing abstract going on. And it
was aspirational, too, in its global
ambition.
This mission came to life in a
bunch of different ways.First off,in a
time when business strategy was
mainly kept in an envelope in head-
quarters and any information about
Effective mission
statements balance
the possible and the
impossible.
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it was the product of the company gossip mill, we talked openly
about which businesses were already No. 1 or No. 2, and which
businesses had to get repaired quickly or be gone. Such candor
23. shocked the system, but it did wonders for making the mission
real
to our people. They may have hated it when businesses were
sold,
but they understood why.
Moreover, we harped on the mission constantly, at every meet-
ing large and small. Every decision or initiative was linked to
the
mission. We publicly rewarded people who drove the mission
and
let go of people who couldn’t deal with it for whatever reason,
usually nostalgia for their business in the “good old days.”
Now, it is possible that in 1981 we could have come up with an
entirely different mission for GE. Say after lots of debate and
an
in-depth analysis of technology, competitors, and customers,we
had
decided we wanted to become the most innovative designer of
elec-
trical products in the world. Or say we had decided that our
most
profitable route would have been to quickly and thoroughly
global-
ize every business we had, no matter what its market position.
Either of these missions would have sent GE off on an entirely
different road from the one we
Setting the mission
is top management’s
cannot be delegated
people ultimately held
24. accountable for it.
responsibility. A mission
to anyone except the
took. They would have required us
to buy and sell different businesses
than we did, or hire and let go of
different people, and so forth. But
technically, I have no argument with
them as missions. They are concrete
and specific. Without doubt, the
electrical products mission would
have come as a comfort to most
people in GE. After all, that’s what
most thought we were. The global
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focus mission would have probably alarmed others. Rapid
change
usually does.
A final word about missions, and it concerns their creation.
How do you come up with one?
To me, this is a no-brainer. You can get input from anywhere—
and you should listen to smart people from every quarter. But
set-
ting the mission is top management’s responsibility. A mission
cannot, and must not, be delegated to anyone except the people
25. ultimately held accountable for it.
In fact, a mission is the defining moment for a company’s lead-
ership.
It’s the true test of its stuff.
. . . AND NOW ABOUT THOSE VALUES
As I said earlier, values are just behaviors—specific, nitty-
gritty,
and so descriptive they leave little to the imagination. People
must
be able to use them as marching orders because they are the how
of
the mission, the means to the end—winning.
In contrast to the creation of a mission, everyone in a company
should have something to say about values.Yes, that can be a
messy
undertaking. That’s OK. In a small enterprise, everyone can be
in-
volved in debating them in all kinds of meetings. In a larger
orga-
nization, it’s a lot tougher. But you can use company-wide
meetings, training sessions, and the like, for as much personal
dis-
cussion as possible, and the intranet for broader input.
Getting more participation really makes a difference, giving
you more insights and more ideas, and at the end of the process,
most importantly, much more extensive buy-in.
The actual process of creating values, incidentally, has to be it-
erative. The executive team may come up with a first version,
but
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it should be just that, a first version. Such a document should go
out to be poked and probed by people all over an organization,
over and over again. And the executive team has to go out of
their
way to be sure they’ve created an atmosphere where people feel
it
is their obligation to contribute.
Now, if you’re in a company where speaking up gets you
whacked, this method of developing values just isn’t going
to work. I understand that, and as long as you stay, you’re going
to
have to live with that generic plaque in the front hall.
But if you’re at a company that does welcome debate—and
many do—shame on you if you don’t contribute to the process.
If
you want values and behaviors that you understand and can live
with yourself, you have to make the case for them.
IT’S IN THE NITTY-GRITTY DETAILS
When I first became CEO, I was certainly guilty of endorsing
vague, too cryptic values. For instance, in 1981, I wrote in the
an-
nual report that GE leaders “face reality”and “live excellence”
and
“feel ownership.” These platitudes sure sounded good, but they
had a long way to go toward describing real behaviors.
27. By 1991, we had made a lot of progress. Over the course of the
previous three years, more than five thousand employees spent
some portion of their time participating in the development of
our values. The result was much more concrete. We printed
them
on laminated wallet cards. The text included imperatives such
as “Act in a boundaryless fashion—always search for and apply
the best ideas regardless of their source” and “Be intolerant of
bureaucracy” and “See change for the growth opportunity it
brings.”
Of course, some of these behaviors required further explana-
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tion and interpretation. And we did that all the time, at
meetings,
during appraisals, and at the watercooler.
Since leaving GE, I’ve realized how much further still we
might have been able to push the discussion about values and
be-
haviors. In 2004, I watched Jamie Dimon and Bill Harrison
work
together to develop values and behaviors for the new company
created by the merger of Bank One and JPMorgan Chase. The
document they used to open the dialogue came from Bank One,
and it listed values and their corresponding behaviors with a
level
of detail I had never seen before.
28. Take the value “We treat customers the way we would want to
be treated.” That’s pretty tangible, but Bank One had literally
identified the ten or twelve behaviors that made that value come
to life. Here are some of them:
■ Never let profit center conflicts get in the way of
doing what is right for the customer.
■ Give customers a good, fair deal. Great customer
relationships take time. Do not try to maximize
short-term profits at the expense of building those
enduring relationships.
■ Always look for ways to make it easier to do
business with us.
■ Communicate daily with your customers. If they
are talking to you, they can’t be talking to a
competitor.
■ Don’t forget to say thank you.
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Another value Bank One had was: “We strive to be the low-
cost provider through efficient and great operations.” Some of
the
prescribed behaviors included:
■ …